U.S. President Barack Obama has called the issues with the HealthCare.gov website "unacceptable" at an event this morning.

According to Reuters, Obama announced a plan to address the recent problems with HealthCare.gov at an event today in the White House Rose Garden. Consumers, pharmacists and business owners were in attendance.

With the rollout of Obamacare on October 1, a key part of the program is consumer accessibility to HealthCare.gov in order to select new insurance plans. The idea behind it is to bring health insurance to Americans that have gone without, and it also doesn't prevent those with pre-existing conditions to apply.

But the White House didn't expect HealthCare.gov to see the amount of traffic it did when Obamacare began. Within the first 10 days, there were over 19 million visits to the site. This led to many technical problems with the site, such as jumbled text, error messages and delays with loading pages.

Obama sees this as a serious issue and addressed it today, calling it unacceptable" and planning new ways for Americans to get insurance exchanges despite site issues.

"The president will directly address the technical problems with HealthCare.gov - troubles that he and his team find unacceptable - and discuss the actions he has pushed for to make it easier for consumers to comparison shop and enroll for insurance while work continues around the clock to improve the website," said a White House official.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), fixes are being made to the site, but it's not all bad. It said people have been successful in other tasks on HealthCare.gov, such as verifying eligibility.

"Individuals have been able to verify their eligibility for credits, enabling them to shop for, and enroll in, low- or even no-cost health plans," said HHS. "We have updated the site several times with new code that includes bug fixes. Our team has called in additional help to solve some of the more complex technical issues we are encountering."

As of last Saturday night, it was reported that almost half a million Americans applied for health insurance as part of Obamacare.

quote: Sorry but I'm so goddamn sick of the hyperbole of stating that only the "rich" get healthcare in this country. It's bullsh*t and you know it!

I'm tired of hearing this BS too!! One of my sis-in-laws and her husband (with two kids) work at car dealerships, neither are salesman. They pay an insane $900 a month for health insurance (with a $1500 deductible at that). They will NOT qualify for any subsidy and they're told obamacare WILL be raising their premium not lowering it. These are middle class people, not rich people and there are MILLIONS of people just like them. Where's their help?

I'm lucky, I've always worked for a large corp and currently work for the fed. I get/got healthcare cheap. I keep hearing this helping the middle class sh!t from Obama and I see no help for any middle class people I know. Sh!t I even heard that if you make $10 an hr but your company offers health insurance, even if you don't qualify for your companies insurance, you're not eligible for a subsidy. WTF kind of sh!t is that? Who is this actually helping?